[Python-Dev] a quit that actually quits (original) (raw)

Reinhold Birkenfeld reinhold-birkenfeld-nospam at wolke7.net
Wed Dec 28 10:24:57 CET 2005

skip at pobox.com wrote:

Fredrik> a quit/exit command that actually quits, instead of printing a Fredrik> "you didn't say please!" message.

I like Fredrik's idea more and more. Without my Unix bifocals it wouldn't occur to me that Ctrl-D is the way to exit. Knowing Ctrl-Z is EOF on Windows, it wouldn't occur to me that I'd also have to hit Return. Without my Python shades I'd never guess to exit via "raise SystemExit". While the raise command is "one true way", it certainly won't occur to newbies. I have no idea how I'd exit from Pippy or from the interpreter prompt on a Nokia phone without it. In short, I think it makes a lot of sense to support a bare "exit" and/or "quit" as a completely intuitive platform-independent newbie-friendly way to exit the interpreter.

+1.

Reinhold

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